Improvement in dumping-wagons



UNITEDSTATES PATET JAMES MILLSO-F WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR T0 HI'MSELF AND PHILIP OOMBS, 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'DUMPING'WAGONS Speellication forming part ouf Letters Patent No. 154,704, dated September 1, 1874; application filed June 27, 1874,

To `all whom yit may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MILLS, ot' Wilmington, Delaware, have invented an Improved Dumping-Vagon, of which the followin g is a specification The main object of my invention is to discharge coal directly from a Wagon across the intervening sidewalk into the cellar-Way of a building; and I attain this object by mounting the wagon-body A upon the Wheels a, adaptedto ways on the truck B, and to inclined bars I), hooked to the rear end of the truck and. restingupon the sidewalk E, as shown in the sectional elevation, Figure l, ot' the accompanying` drawing, rso that the said wagon-body can be wheeled back from the truck and across the sidewalk, and at the saine time so inclined .that the coal will be discharged from the same by its own gravity 'directly Vinto the cellar- .way. The truck B may be of the most simple construction, and may or may not be provided with springs.

In the present instanceV the front and rear axles are connected together by parallel bars b b, which formn the ways. for the flanged wheels c of the wagon-body, and which take the place of the ordinary truck frame. (See vplan View, Fig. 2.) The barsI) are, in the `present instance, hooked to the rear ends of the bars b b of the truck, to which, however, they may be otherwise secured, and they are maintained at. a proper distance apart from each other, at their outer ends, by a detachable cross-stay, j'. When not required for use the said. barsD-and their stay j' can be disconnected, and suspended from or otherwise attached to the truck. l'Ihe Wagon-body has an opening, if, at its rear end, through which the load is discharged, andI propose to attach a spout or chute, t', to the body directly `opposite this opening, as indicated by dotted lines in Figui, when it is desired to conduct the coal or other material to amore remote point than can be reached by the body itself. When the load has been discharged from the wagon-body, the latter is drawn up the inclined ways l) and onto the truck by a rope or chain, K, attached to its front end, and arranged to be wound upon a windlass, H, at

the front of the truck. The windlass and rope may also be used to advantage in lowering the loaded body down the inclined ways D.

invention, it will-be evident, can be applied to two-Wheeled carts, as well as to wagons ofthe character described.

I claim asvlny invention- In a dumping Wagon or cart, the body A, mounted upon rollers adapted to ways b onv the. truck, and to inclined bars I), detachably secured to the rea-rends of and forming con-v E. B. FRAZER, TI-Ios. D. WEBB. 

